Originally Posted on foxsports on June 10, 2007.
Lewis Hamilton won the Formula One race at Montreal today. Why is this news?
First, Hamilton is off to a fantastic F-1 career - he's finished on the podium in his first six F-1 starts. Second, he is the"second" car in the McLaren stable, behind Fernando Alonso, the two time reigning Formula One champion. "Second" car drivers aren't supposed to lead the points, they are to support the primary driver in the stable.
Hamilton apparently didn't get that memo, as he has run better than Alonso at several races, finishing no worse than third thus far into the season. Hamilton also became the first black (he's British so he can't be African-American, right?) to win in F-1.
News reporters have been calling Hamilton the Tiger Woods of autoracing. I'm not sure this moniker fits, as F-1 is a much bigger deal in Non-American markets than it has ever been in American markets. While Woods is limited to playing a few events overseas, Hamilton yearly races in Bahrain, Australia, Brazil, Canada, and China. My guess is if you ask the average man/woman in the street in Beijing, Madrid, London, Rio, Johannesburg, Dubai, and Sydney who Lewis Hamilton is, they may have an idea, they probably won't know Tiger Woods. In other words, Tiger Woods is the Lewis Hamilton of golf.
If his first six races are any indication of Hamilton's talent, then Schmacher's records may not be as secure as everyone thought.
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